Friday, April 15, 2011

A Unique Stamp of India - made from the hand spun cloth "Khadi" 




Gandhi theme is the most popular for stamp collectors  . A Unique &  special postage stamp on Mahatma Gandhi  brought out by the India Post made of the handspun cloth "Khadi" has interested stamp collectors all over.


It was released during Indipex - 2011 the World Philatelic Exhibition held at New Delhi. The khadi stamp is diamond-shaped made of khadi cloth specially manufactured in West Bengal.


India has never issued any stamp of any material other than  paper .For the first time in history, India Post used Khadi cloth as material for stamp.














The Man Behind The Gandhi Stamp.

As the nation awaits the release of Special Khadi Stamp Of Gandhi during Indipex 2011, a man has silently added one more Gandhi design to his art Portofolio.His name is Sankha Samantha the man behind 250 stamps of India.

Since 1947, the postal department has issued 33 commemorative stamps on Gandhi. Of those 33, Samanta has designed 14, making him the most sought after Gandhi stamp artist.

For a man who makes such an art of stamp design, Samanta’s career started by chance. In 1987, when he was a student at the Delhi College of Art, Samanta was forced to visiting Dak Bhawan to audition as a stamp designer. 

To test the soft-spoken Bengali’s skills, the India Post officers asked him to draw a portrait of Indira Gandhi. They were impressed with the result, and Samanta was appointed an empanelled artist. 

The first stamp he designed was of Veer Narayan Singh, a sepoy executed in 1857. Since then, Samantha said he’s designed more than 300 stamps, which include portraits of freedom fighters, politicians and industrialists.

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